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Alex Wagner

Editorial Director of News and Content for PhoneDog Media. Arsenal, beer, video games. Can be followed on Twitter at @alw. I participate in the Amazon Associates program, which means I may earn a commission from purchases made through affiliate links.

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Rumor: Verizon iPhone to arrive after Christmas with LTE in tow

Verizon is going to begin selling LTE-capable handsets by the middle of 2011, possibly as early as February.  Will one of those devices be an LTE iPhone?  That's what a report from MacDailyNews is...

Verizon mulling over family data plans, too

We've heard that both Sprint and AT&T are mulling over the possibility of adding a single data plan that can be shared among several devices, and now it seems that Verizon is considering doing...

Analyst: Verizon needs the iPhone, and soon

With the crazy Android sales on Verizon, you wouldn't expect anyone to say that the carrier needs the iPhone, but that's what one analyst seems to be saying with his new report.  Horace Dediu at...

Apple, Google, and others battling to purchase Nortel 4G patents

Bankrupt telecommunications company Nortel is selling off all of its business units, and there are a number of companies competing to snatch up Nortel's copious amount of patents.  Apple, Google,...

Pantech P8000 is powered by Android, has AT&T 3G bands

It appears that AT&T's Android lineup is about to grow by one thanks to manufacturer Pantech,  A recent FCC filing shows a rendering of the Pantech P8000, a candybar phone with ATT's 850MHz and...

Motorola's Honeycomb tablet poses for the camera once again

Motorola's Honeycomb-powered tablet has already been leaked a couple of times, but we're not ones to pass up the opportunity to have another look at the unannounced device.  The Moto product is the...

CLIQ 2 spotted at the USPTO on its way to T-Mobile

The Motorola CLIQ 2's rumored November 1st launch date came and went without so much as a peep from either T-Mobile or Moto, but it appears that the device hasn't been laid to rest, like many had...

LG Star flexes its Tegra 2 muscles in an early preview

The LG Star has popped up a couple of times in the past month or so, and now the device is making its presence known once again.  The folks at Engadget managed to spend some personal time with the...

EVO Shift 4G finally reveals its keyboard in leaked photo

We when saw the HTC A7373 leak yesterday, we were bemoaning the fact that we had yet to see the HTC EVO Shift 4G's keyboard.  A poster over at Sprint Users has changed that, though, leaking an image...

KIN Studio officially shutting down on January 31st

The KINs have had an interesting life, and today another chapter in the story of the two devices is being added.  Although Verizon and Microsoft killed the handsets shortly after their release, the...

Android Market updated with a new look and handful of new features

The past week has certainly been a busy one for Google: they unveiled both Gingerbread and the Nexus S, showed off a prototype Motorola Honeycomb tablet, and announced that there are now 300,000...

Nexus S getting improved NFC capabilities in future updates

The shiny new Nexus S, which you can see Aaron unbox right here, is Google's poster child for near field communication support in Android.  As of this writing, though, the Nexus S and its NFC chip...

HTC A7373 appears on a leaked Sprint document

We already know that HTC plans to bring the EVO Shift 4G to Sprint, but a newly-leaked doc shows that it's not going to be alone.  As you can see above, the HTC A7373 is currently projected to...

Analyst: Windows Phone 7 launch a success, could end up harming Android

Microsoft may not be willing to talk much about Windows Phone 7 sales numbers, but one analyst thinks that they don't have any reason to keep their mouths shut.  Charles Wolf, analyst at Needham...

T-Mobile commits to a 4G tablet in 2011, too

Last night we saw Sprint confirm that it'll be launching a WiMAX-capable tablet some time in 2011, and now T-Mobile is joining in on the fun, too.  While they didn't really mention any specific...

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